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Saturday, April 15, 2017

The battle between the CIA and WikiLeaks is intensifying.
CIA
Director Mike Pompeo used his first major public remarks on Thursday to
skewer WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” willing
to work with Russia and other foreign actors to promote their interests.
He
blasted Julian Assange as a “fraud” interested in his own fame, seeking
to undermine efforts by the WikiLeaks founder to be viewed as a
legitimate ally of civil libertarians.
“It is time to call out
WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence
service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” Pompeo said.“Assange
is a narcissist who has created nothing of value,” the former
Republican congressman charged. “He relies on the dirty work of others
to make himself famous. He is a fraud—a coward hiding behind a screen.”
WikiLeaks
was quick to respond, sending out a series of messages on Twitter
claiming that Pompeo vowed to “silence” the organization over its
purported disclosures of CIA hacking tools and using his remarks to
promote an op-ed written by Assange in the Washington Post.
In the op-ed, Assange wrote that WikiLeaks had the same mission as news outlets such as the Post and The New York Times.
The organization also mocked Pompeo by sending out
a since-deleted tweet he wrote last July, when the former Kansas
lawmaker cited stolen Democratic National Committee emails released by
WikiLeaks as proof that the presidential nomination had been “fixed” for
Hillary Clinton.
Pompeo’s
speech was a wide departure from President Trump’s praise of WikiLeaks
on the campaign trail. Trump and his administration have taken a much
more hostile approach to WikiLeaks since taking office.
U.S.
national security experts welcomed Pompeo’s comments as a signal that
the new director was taking a hard line on an organization that has
leaked information damaging to American interests.
“I think what
[Pompeo] did was putting him on notice, which I think is exactly the
right thing to do,” James Carafano, a national security expert at the
conservative Heritage Foundation, said. “I think he’s throwing down the
gauntlet.”
But the speech was not warmly embraced by all.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who published documents leaked by Edward
Snowden, slammed Pompeo for his remarks, accusing him of "explicitly"
threatening free speech and press freedoms.
"WikiLeaks now has
few friends in Washington," Greenwald wrote in The Intercept. "But the
level of affection for WikiLeaks should have no bearing on how one
responds to these press freedom threats from Donald Trump’s
CIA Director. Criminalizing the publication of classified documents is
wrong in itself, and has the obvious potential to spread far beyond
their initial target."
WikiLeaks for weeks has needled the CIA by
releasing troves of leaked documents allegedly revealing the agency’s
hacking programs.
The releases, called “Vault 7,” contain
documents describing hacking techniques used by the CIA, such as tools
to breach mobile devices and hack into smart televisions, as well as
other internal communications.
Hours after Pompeo’s speech,
WikiLeaks leaked yet another trove of documents that claimed to reveal
information about a top-secret CIA hacking program called Hive.
Experts have
largely described the contents of the periodic document releases as
unsurprising, and evidence that the CIA is doing its job. Nevertheless,
they have renewed the debate around privacy and intelligence community
spying and also raised questions about the source of the leaks.
“Obviously,
this hurts when other people know where you have been, what you have
been thinking,” said former CIA Director Michael Hayden, who said that
the documents show no abuse of the agency’s powers.
“There is the
danger that even though these things might reflect appropriate
activities that Americans don’t object to, the fact that you can’t keep
the tools secret, the fact that you can’t keep the data you collect from
other prying eyes, that creates a real big, strong argument for, ‘then I
don’t want you doing it in the first place,’” Hayden said.
Some
note that the leaks underscore the persisting problem of insider
threats, which has been a major cause for concern since the leaks by
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and former soldier Chelsea Manning.
Pompeo acknowledged Thursday that the agency needs to strengthen its own systems to prevent leaks.
Adam
Klein, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said
that a major concern about WikiLeaks is that the organization provides
an “outlet” for insider threats and encourages them.
“Insider threats are our intelligence agencies’ biggest security threat,” Klein told The Hill.
WikiLeaks
has appeared to target CIA interns as potential sources of information.
“CIA advertises internships. Whistleblowing opportunity?” the
organized wrote on Twitter in mid-March.
“To
the extent that there’s any news here, it’s that we have not gotten a
handle on insider threats,” Klein said of the latest releases, noting
that Congress should be concerned about the CIA leaks.
“I think
it’s good news, frankly, that the CIA us thinking creatively about
collecting information from foreign intelligence targets in the digital
age,” Klein said.
The CIA has not confirmed the authenticity of any of the documents released, which Pompeo mentioned briefly on Thursday.
“As
a policy, we at CIA do not comment on the accuracy of purported
intelligence documents posted online,” Pompeo said. “In keeping with
that policy, I will not specifically comment on the authenticity or
provenance of recent disclosures.”
“But the false narratives that increasingly define our public discourse cannot be ignored,” he said.

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